Much of the world knows Peter Stafford as the missionary doctor who contracted Ebola during the most recent outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. But in his home village of Nyankunde, he sometimes goes by a different name.
“They call me ‘Father of Luke,’” Stafford told CT. “Papa de Luke.”
Luke is Stafford’s 7-year-old son, a popular kid who plays in a local soccer league and has three younger siblings and many friends in Nyankunde, a town in eastern Congo near Uganda where the Staffords have lived since 2021, after being deployed there by their mission agency, Serge.
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